A year of no book buying. Anyone care to join me?

[Parisbanana]

I've had a dummy run, starting at the beginning of the school year in September, just so it didn't seem too daunting! But so far I'm embracing it. I buy a lot of books generally and just thought we'd got so many in the house. I do read the vast majority of what I buy, but I do have books I haven't read, and my husband and teenage kids have some great books I would love to read.
So over the past 3 months I have definitely decreased my bedside pile. I am currently reading A Christmas Carol which dh reads every December but I never have. It's quite a joy to browse our book cases and spot things I haven't read and think this is the year I'll get round to it! Or to reread old favourites.
And I've just been made redundant so tightening the book buying belt is even more important.

Anyone fancy giving it a go?

Well done matilda

I have unsubscribed to the kindle daily deal email and put the book people catalogue into the recycling without even reading it!

I confess I weakened this week and bought three books and one for DD. It was using up the last of my Christmas money, so that's it now except for my Audible credits which must be used (I have for left, but am not using them just yet).

Resolve must not weaken ......

Damn Sainsburys and their good book offers. The Trouble With Sheep and Goats £2.99 kind of fell in my trolley.

Reading 2 from tbr pile though.

I'm in!

I suck at this.

Twitching like a mad thing.

Soooo want Kate Mosse Mistletoe Bride and dd desperately wants the next Flavia De Luce mystery. She has a tbr pile bigger than mine. Our library has both,going to order them from there and rectify the damage.

Think this is a good idea. I was thinking of curbing my book buying until I go through all my book cases. Also not inspired to buy anything at the moment but thinking of reading some classics which I haven't got around to. I might have to relent if C.J. Sansome writes another book. Thanks for the incentive. This is a good thread.

I am doing this The pile next to my bed is about 20 plus some random ones about the house and a few on my e reader
My plan is to read or reject each book.Will read 10% of each before discarding

I used to insist on finishing each book I started but life's too short

Will buy 1 new book for each holiday x

For the first time in many.many years, I have not bought any books over Christmas or in the sales. I do, however, have enough books to last me until 2199 though.

So far so good. Am enjoying browsing my bookcases at home for choices. Just finished Up the Junction by Nell Dunn. Great book. Very short, easy read. Still haven't chosen anything for tonight so may just dip into Wendy Jones' Sex Life of English Women which I'm about half way through (I only read 1 or 2 chapters at a time otherwise I feel about sex overloaded!
Was in Waterstones the other day as it's our in town meeting place. I looked at the stationery instead

Have finished my Elly Griffiths book. Only 42 to go....am planning to sell my Kindle as I am broke and I dislike Amazon's business practices. I prefer real books anyway. So far so good....how is everyone else doing ?. parisbanana delusions of gender is a really good book. I enjoyed her other one a mind of its own as well.

I'll try . . . don't know if I can go cold turkey on books, though.

However, I do have several million books on my shelves that I haven't got round to reading yet, so I'lltry my best.

I keep thinking I've done so well with this. Then realise it's only day eight of the year

I'm working my way through my Christmas pile before I start on the true TBRs. This week is My name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout. Really enjoying it so far.

Bugger! Fell of the wagon already and it's only day 9. Was clearing out My Shows on the TVo box and came across a documentary on Ted Hughes I'd not watched. Was really interesting but then couldn't stop myself ordering Birthday Letters. It was only £2 second hand on Amazon ................ This is going to be harder than I thought.

Littlepleasures that sounds just like my normal downfall. So far this year I have 6 books added to my "books to read" notes on my phone. I can see there being a couple of hundred on the list by the end of the year!

Am currently reading another from my pile of Pans bought last year at the charity shop for £1 each. This one is The Losers by Clifford Irving, set in 1950s New York.

Why has it only been ten days! I'm hoping if I don't buy any I will actually have presents to ask for in October for my birthday

Severed I'm reading Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout from my Christmas haul and enjoying it too.

Mistletoe Bride just arrived at the library.< polishes halo>

Well I think I fell off the wagon in a rather spectacular way, given that only 11 days into the year and I have bought three new books and read two of them. Maybe trying to read nothing but non-fiction through January was a bit much?
OTOH I have managed to get through one non-fiction book (Tanya Byron autobiography) and over half way through another (hefty book on behavioural economics. I will finish it.)

I'm three down so now at 31 in my TBR pile - I deleted The Trouble with Goats and Sheep from my Kindle as it didn't seem appealing anymore, charity shopped Even Dogs in the Wild (OK but nothing special) as well as the Bruce Springsteen autobiography, which I gave up reading because he was boring me. I'm reading a library book at the moment - Cheer up love - and feeling good I resisted temptation to buy it last week in Waterstone's with something else in their buy-one-get-one-half-price range.

I have finished one from the pile and that is going to the charity shop and have started on the second. Pile is very, very large!

You know you can return Kindle books within a timelimit? So if your finger just "accidentally" slips in the Kindle store, you can go log in to your Amazon account and return the book for a refund. Thought it might be helpful to know for anyone who falls into temptation

I am resisting any purchases and have read one book from my pile - the next to be read will be Susan Hill's Howard's End is on the Landing which I'm thinking of sending round my postal book group.
We have a charity book shelf in our local coffee shop and I was thinking that if I took a book (paying a donation of course) and returned it after reading it would be like library books, wouldn't it?

Books are so stupidly expensive in Australia that the opp shops are my downfall, especially since the posher ones now put books in alphabetical order.